292 THE 
‘GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
{SEPTEMBER 4, 1875, 
I will not here give any account of a Mex, ed ten 
days episode, on ing with the vo T 
brimming ri bordered with ost орев 
ground of 
-leave rdure of 
the Liquidambar an int other ded iduous trees in "their 
development, interspersed with the dee 
and гайы hue of the Magnolia grandiflora, and, 
en the banks were low, dominated by w 
т n 
tropical as Then follo 
at dead am: “dilapidated, but still енед Apala- 
Monday 
ere, far 
in April A E e Oranges are and w 
from the . of p world, with Bill 
e 
and bust stle 
bluff of Aspalaga, where the tree was first found, was 
reached after sunrise. дч as sad to see that the 
verhung the river here in former 
rha 
measured almost mfere: and was pro- 
aa tall. But it éi азаа by the noblest 
a grandiflora 1 ever set eyes on, wi ith a trunk 
in girth. 
After long riggs one tree tts found with female 
w. 
some protection. B species of very res 
range may | be said to hold its exist ence by a presario 
ozen miles a oath along these bluffs, 
Chapman has heard of its growin 
south, where the bluff 
away from the 
At least eis peu ee Mr. 
Coon found w rreya n and I 
heard E $ (identifying : "by the descriptions” ы as grow- 
ing five miles a 
Returning to the ose ‘at nightfall, I brought with 
me thirty or forty seedli orreyas, being 
w 
vanced to be safely sent far north this spri 
have been successfully consigned to пе араа Mr. 
Berckman's care, at Augus hope that 
one or more of them may in due time perle upon 
e of Torrey. 
Croom and his sad fate. 
у, I be 
a plantation at Quin 
another at Mariana, east of Apalachicola River ; andit 
was in passing from one d the other that he discovered 
the tree of which I ha discoursing, as wellasthe 
. herbaceous plant 5 his 
children, in the fi 
Pulaski, between New You and 
I have been told that two seedling Torreyas which 
Mr. Croom planted near his house at Quincy, and 
ich had become stately trees, have recently been 
demolished by the present proprietor; also that a tree 
Mr. Croom’s PM still flourishes bs the grounds 
of the State-house Tall Professor Asa 
Gray, in «4 merican Деги. 
ASPARAGUS CULTURE AT 
ARGENTEUIL 
THE extensive culture of this esculent near Paris, 
and the abundance of the produce in the markets of 
the principal towns of France, induces us to think 
that some account of its cultivation may be acceptable 
to our readers. The following details are taken from 
a — of M. C. Dubost in the Annales Agrono- 
= 
ique. 
Nothing definite is known as to the origin of this 
culture at Argenteuil. It is simply proved by deeds, 
which date from the 18th century, that even at that 
time it was of some = ape Чүл and was well esteemed 
in the Paris mark e this as it may, a complete 
revolution in the calvin x this n: has taken 
place since € com ment of the 
Formerly it s grown eme by itself. 
1818 a Vin ана ot commenced to 
grow pee ind with the Vine, probably to Ls 
up the vacant spaces left by the Vines 
from age с or accident. The results he obtained excited 
general attention, and it was not long before i 
recognised that if the Vine suffered from - dpi 
of the рари, the vam gained mu 
association the Vin 
woul 
grow them gl senna It is 
seeds in the nurseries that the 
But, contrary to the rape a fol 
planting at a depth o o id 
ractised. A trench of this de oth i is dug, the bottom 
E which is lined wi et-sweepings. When 
m is therein е it y covered with coma 
pulverised soil. As the plant grows VER ^e (terre de 
а) i is thrown into the — ta - ca 
e wever, exhausting the 
plant. About the fifth year the crop is in full bearin 
and this lasts s generally from t ten to t welve years ; at 
up, but they 
which is destined to favour - 
the stems and to ect them from the action of 
light. mg which also permits the stalks to be readily 
зр е gathering. In this ed Asparagus of fine 
of extrao бо-и 
5 francs the stick (szc). 
is sold in pom shops at 6 to 8 francs at the e 
of exceptio валу large su 
the whole of the 
of 
diffi j 
At the time 
in the vin 
ies ceo 
This лге. from various ca 
t 
and care required in cutting the crop. 
of the vintage all the household is 
ienced cultivator 
ls that concealed the 
The 
largest sticks and pei t for cutting. 
utting ing been in morning, 
ery p inis 1 care, the rest of the day 
is devoted to tying up the bundles. In the evening 
is yed to Paris, the 
(Les Hailes), which city is reached about midnight. 
It is all sold between элт ТА Not 
bundles are sold a The Asparagus is 
cut between April Io ы 1o and June 3 IO, and thus it n 
cides with the n ions on 
| Hence Кайын be п айан that the теодос 
are surmounted with a mound of very mellow soil, 
ment of 
тети аман : 
x 
tion of Asparagus is "et by the amount of labour 
available, Skilled labour is here essential, the pro. | | 
duct is too PE and too valuable to be: entrusted - 
to untrained Th 
of their own establishm 
While the Asparagus ew by being grown with 
not beneficial to the. 
the Vines, the — iation is 
later. The am Mg а wine ipee undergoes 
notable difileution. plants 
3ooo 
e only yields half i its pee US 
ttr diminished when there аге 
aragus ‘plants per hectare. Even under these 
санаа, the yield of T two harvests is very 
considerable, 
A thousand to 1 S francs of wine, and d 
e ncs worth of аркы a yield | 
north. dne cultivation 
[n | 
о 3000 
д 
т {һаї 
de suitable rotation must be made to insure the suc. 
a new rotation of Asparagus. 
A HOLIDAY aN Meg EL. 
THE auno disease has been terribly bad about 
Carmarthen, in many places the crop appears to have 
been ы destroyed, but whether from the first or 
second visitation of the murrain I do not know. The 
odour, however, which prevails in many places where 
Potatos are in the so 
amongst the tubers. h 
Potato disease at present, vea its oogonium and апе. | 
ridium, its zoospore and its resting-spore ; when wè 
sian — it ч us hope z cure it. When I went 
down to Carmarthen last week to meet Professor. 
eat of Cambri ridge, Professor Westwood of 
ges, it was 
= "i изе of South W 
ord, who is alw 
and ынаа the ане insects of our g 
our pages und ua D initials of **I. O. Wa” | 
e patie to be without end in 
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upside down, and em equal á 
C. Babington, Professor of Botany at Cambridge - 
whose name is also not unknown in s, was 
y à 
Gloucester Station for a visitor with a **rufous pileus _ 
This expression, when translated from the fangologil : 
into the vernacular, means, of co out fot | 
a fungus-man with a red head." The visit А Llane | 
stephan Church and Castle was made. during such? - 
ilace a of rain 
continuous and pitiles: p that had the - Ü 
Cambrians been mere zoospores furnished with cilia, — 
they might have floated hen to Llar - 
like swarm Potato foliage- ge. 
got thoroughly wet except the Bi op and 
Bay. Lady 
